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The signal man told me that between the wars and in the 1950s the goods yard
was full of wagons loading and unloading, and that there was far too much work
and that the hours were long and hard. Yachtsman used to come down from (or was
it up to?) London to sail; in special Saturday trains.

In the 1930s the boat yard owners during the depression used to pay their
employees out of their own pockets if there was not enough work. (They were
after all men that they had known and trusted all their lives).

Some of the young men from Oldton used to crew on the 12m yachts and became
national heroes.